My hope is this will help emphasize the importance of learning and using the mouth positions. AUTHENTIC TRAINING TO STRENGTHEN YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF SANSKRIT, YOGA & LUMINOUS SOUL TEACHINGS.
The dental sibilant is the easiest, as it is a simple “S” sound.
Vowels: ... Devanāgarī / Gujanāgarī / Romanāgarī Alphabet. The tables below show the five basic vowel sounds in their short and long forms.
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The tongue tip is between the teeth and the alveolar ridge, and the teeth are clenched.
This makes IAST far more readable than some other transliteration schemes. For example, even though spelled the same in both languages, गुरुदेव is pronounced “gurudeva” in saṃskṛta, but “gurudev” in Hindi. Form the sibilant (śa) the same way, but with a small gap to force air through, creating a hissing sound.
Vowels अ a - as in English "far"; आ…
The gaṇeśa mantra from the previous example can end with either “namah” with a puff of air, or as “namaha” with a voiced a.
Now we’re going to get into the practical stuff. Throughout this comprehensive course, you will receive precise instruction on the various mouth positions, pronunciation of consonants and simple and complex vowels, as well as an introduction, invocation, closing prayer and closing statements by Manorama. Throughout this comprehensive course, you will receive precise instruction on the various mouth positions, pronunciation of consonants and simple and complex vowels, as well as an introduction, invocation, closing
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As with its palatal counterpart, the sibilant (ṣa) is similar to — but different from — the English “SH”. How to write vowels (hindi).
Sanskrit (/ ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t /; Sanskrit: संस्कृतम्, romanized: saṃskṛtam, IPA: [ˈsɐ̃skr̩tɐm] ()) is an Indo-Aryan or Indic language of the ancient Indian subcontinent with a 3,500-year history. Practice this mouth position with the phrase “jaya śiva śaṃkara”.
For many years, before I truly understood the mouth positions, I made the mistake of pronouncing the labial semivowel (va) as an English “V” sound (as in “very” or “vertical”).
Don’t get frustrated by small errors. Some systems use a mixture of upper- and lower-case letters or interior punctuation to represent saṃskṛta characters. There are some very similar systems that use all the same diacritical marks as IAST. The visarga closes its preceding vowel with a breathy sound resulting from a small puff of air. If you see a correctly spelled word, you’ll know how to say it. Each mouth position except velar also produces a semivowel, and each position except labial produces a fricative (I’ll explain these terms later). The vowels (ṛ and ṝ) are not pronounced as a trilled “ri” or a Spanish-style rolled “r”, as is often taught.